to the constitution, and mainly to national Sovereignty, to political equality and constitutional monarchy, which are its most important characteristics and their almost unanimous sentiment."] [Footnote 2372: Governor Morris, letter of June 20, 1792.] [Footnote 2373: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France.

in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.Vol.

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page 84.] [Footnote 2374: Malouet, II.203.

"Every report that came in from the provinces announced (to the King and Queen) a perceptible amelioration of public opinion, which was becoming more and more perverted.

That which reached them was uninfluenced, whilst the opinions of clubs, taverns, and street-corners gained enormous power, the time being at hand when there was to be no other power." The figures given above are by Mallet du Pan, "Memoires," II.